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Calls for Papers

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

In the past decade, the study of women and gender has offered some of the most vital and innovative challenges to scholarhsip on the early modern period. Ashgate's new series of interdisciplinary and comparative studies, "Women and Gender in the Early Modern World," takes up this challenge, reaching beyond geographical limitations to explore the experiences of early modern women and the nature of gender in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Submissions of single-author studies and edited collections will be considered.

Proposals should take the form of either
--a preliminary letter of inquiry, briefly describing the project; or
--a formal prospectus including: abstract, table of contents, sample chapter (other than the introduction), estimate of length, estimate of the number and type of illustrations to be included, and a c.v.

Please send three copies of either type of proposal (one to each of the series editors and one to the publisher) to the addresses below:

Allyson Poska
Dept. of History
Mary Washington College
1301 College Avenue
Fredericksburg, VA 22401-5358

Abby Zanger
Dept. of Romance Lang. and Lit.
Harvard University
Boyleston Hall 508
Cambridge, MA 02138

Erika Gaffney
Editor
Ashgate Publishing Co.
Old Post Road
Brookfield, VT 05036-9704

Women Writers and Spirituality

Submissions are sought for a proposed volume of essays on representations of spirituality in women writers' texts. The collection will include essays on works from all literary and historic periods and from diverse ethnic and religious traditions. Possible areas of focus include, but are not limited to: women writers of the Middle Ages (Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Margery Kempe, Christina de Pisan); early modern women writers (Aemilia Lanyer, Lady Mary Wroth, Elizabeth Cary, Aphra Behn, Anne Hutchinson, Anne Bradstreet); Jewish women writers (Mary Antin, Muriel Rukeyser, Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick, Marge Piercy, E.M. Broner, Adrienne Rich, Irena Klepfisz); Native American women writers (Paula Gunn Allen, Linda Hogan, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko); African American women writers (Frances E. W. Harper, Sojourner Truth, Lucille Clifton, Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, Gloria Naylor, Rita Dove); as well as other 19th- and 20th-century women writers including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, Madeleine L'Engle, Flannery O'Connor, and Denise Levertov. The aim of this collection is to serve as a resource not only for scholars, but for readers both inside and outside of academia who are interested in ways that women's spiritual experience is expressed in literature. Writers should avoide excessive use of theoretical jargon and, in general, seek to illuminate, rather than obscure, the literary texts they examine.

Send two-page abstract or a completed essay of 20-30 pages by 15 July 2000; please identify any papers published previously or under consideration elsewhere. Kristina K. Groover, Department of English, Appalachian State University, Boone NC 28608, fax 828/262-2133. Email and telephone inquiries are welcome: grooverkk@appstate.edu, 828/262-2314.